Our vision: improving the world through engineering

Our mission

How the Institution of Mechanical Engineers is helping to improve the world

Throughout the constantly evolving work of mechanical engineers, one institution has been at the heart of the world’s most important and dynamic industries since its formation in 1847. Today, working hard to support our 120,000 members, the Institution is the market leader among professional engineering bodies. It is a go-ahead organization with global reach that truly represents and reflects the profession: encouraging professional registration and long-term career development.

As a global community of mechanical engineers represented in over 140 countries, the Institution is the largest network of mechanical engineering knowledge, skill and opportunity in the world. With an ever growing membership based outside the UK, we develop and maintain key partnerships with leading multi-national employers to ensure their technical workforces are trained to the highest standard. By equipping engineers with the right skills, knowledge and experience to help them develop, we contribute to strengthening the world’s leading companies.

We encourage high profile education initiatives which inspire the next generation to work in engineering, and get engineers featured in the global media and heard by government.

We are committed to ensuring that the views of engineers are well represented in the public domain. Thanks to its internationally recognised thought leadership around energy, climate change and future transport, the global press trusts the Institution as a source of expert opinion. With a proven track record for understanding the needs of government, our well respected expert knowledge is sought by politicians to shape policy.

Strategic Objectives

Our strategic objectives are:

Develop engineers

Be a leading PEI for professional registration.

Provide world class products and services to engineers, and those engaged with engineering

Ensure employer relevance

Support contemporary ways of working and cover a broad range of disciplines

Offer new, innovative forms of membership that support engineering.

Promote engineering

Collaborate with other key bodies to influence education policy

Enable the next generation of engineers to be smarter, quicker and wider skilled than ever before

Recognise past achievements by linking them to our future goals and aspirations.

Inform opinion

Be the trusted advisor to the media to drive proactive and reactive media coverage

Be the trusted advisor to employers, governments, academic bodies, and other institutions